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"So what I did, I wrote about my brother Allie's baseball mitt. It was a very
descriptive subject. It really was. My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. He
was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems
written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them
on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up at
bat. He's dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18,
1946. You'd have liked him. He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty
times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent. His teachers were always writing
letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their
class. And they weren't just shooting the crap. They really meant it. But it wasn't just that
he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways.
He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,
but Allie never did, and he had very red hair. I'll tell you what kind of red hair he had. I
started playing golf when I was only ten years old. I remember once, the summer I was
around twelve, teeing off and all, and having a hunch that if I turned around all of a
sudden, I'd see Allie. So I did, and sure enough, he was sitting on his bike outside the
fence--there was this fence that went all around the course--and he was sitting there,
about a hundred and fifty yards behind me, watching me tee off. That's the kind of red
hair he had. God, he was a nice kid, though. He used to laugh so hard at something he
thought of at the dinner table that he just about fell off his chair. I was only thirteen, and
they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in
the garage. I don't blame them. I really don't. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I
broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all
the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken
and everything by that time, and I couldn't do it. It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll
admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it, and you didn't know Allie. My hand
still hurts me once in a while when it rains and all, and I can't make a real fist any more--
not a tight one, I mean--but outside of that I don't care much. I mean I'm not going to be a
goddam surgeon or a violinist or anything anyway. "

We see from this that Allie was a great person. He seems to be very intelligent and very caring. He made a huge impact in the life of Holden, and Holden absolutely loves him and loves his characteristics. Holden seems to be very into him and he identifies with him. He says a lot about him wit meticulous detail.

I believe this shows what an impact Allie had on Holden. it shows the softer side of Holden and shows how much family means to him. We see that he obviously loved Allie very much and cared for him a lot to an extent that he hasn't cared for anything else.

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"She's a dancer," I said. "Ballet and all. She used to practice about two hours
every day, right in the middle of the hottest weather and all. She was worried that it might
make her legs lousy--all thick and all. I used to play checkers with her all the time."

To begin, this quote directly states that Jane is a dancer, by stating "She is a dancer". We see that she obviously is a very dedicated dancer, dancing about 2 hours a day, even in the hottest of weathers. We see that she is obviously someone that really is dedicated and someone that really cares.

We can also understand that Holden is very passionate about this character. He seems to know a lot about her, and while he seems to be an overall careless character, he seems to put a lot of attention in this conversation, hinting at the idea that Jane interests him.

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"All of a sudden the door opened, and old Stradlater barged in, in a big hurry. He
was always in a big hurry. Everything was a very big deal. He came over to me and gave
me these two playful as hell slaps on both cheeks--which is something that can be very
annoying. 'Listen," he said. "You going out anywheres special tonight?"

This quote shows how Stradlater does not really resect anyone else. he just barged into the personal space of Holden and gave him a slap on his two cheeks. I believe he thinks he can do whatever he wants because of his popularity.

In terms of Holden, this is very similar to Ackley. It is obvious that he is not the biggest fan of the Stradlater, but he keeps quiet. He does not really become rude in anyway, and it just shows how reserved of a character he is.

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"I mean that's all I told D.B. about, and he's my brother and all. He's in Hollywood. That
isn't too far from this crumby place, and he comes over and visits me practically every
week end. He's going to drive me home when I go home next month maybe. He just got a
Jaguar. One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour. It
cost him damn near four thousand bucks. He's got a lot of dough, now. He didn't use to."

This quote shows that D.B. is a really rich person. We see with the use of dough and jaguar that he has the money to buy the luxuries that he wants to buy, but he obviously does not, as the quote says. This makes him come of as being a little reserved, and maybe he does not spend his money crazily like other rich men do, and he actually goes about it in a smart way.

This shows that Holden is a little bitter about D.B. We see that he wants to be him, and he is very salty that he is in Hollywood while he is living this life. I believe this also shows the contrast between the two brothers, one being very successful and the other not being successful.

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"It was Robert Ackley, this guy
that roomed right next to me. There was a shower right between every two rooms in our
wing, and about eighty-five times a day old Ackley barged in on me. He was probably the
only guy in the whole dorm, besides me, that wasn't down at the game. He hardly ever
went anywhere. He was a very peculiar guy. He was a senior, and he'd been at Pencey the
whole four years and all, but nobody ever called him anything except "Ackley." Not even
Herb Gale, his own roommate, ever called him "Bob" or even "Ack." If he ever gets
married, his own wife'll probably call him "Ackley." He was one of these very, very tall,
round-shouldered guys--he was about six four--with lousy teeth. The whole time he
roomed next to me, I never even once saw him brush his teeth. They always looked
mossy and awful, and he damn near made you sick if you saw him in the dining room
with his mouth full of mashed potatoes and peas or something. Besides that, he had a lot
of pimples. Not just on his forehead or his chin, like most guys, but all over his whole
face. And not only that, he had a terrible personality. He was also sort of a nasty guy. I
wasn't too crazy about him, to tell you the truth."

This quote shows how disgusting and dumb Ackley really is. From the following quote above, it is very obvious that Holden does not like Ackley. He thinks that he is a very disgusting character and he is displeased by his appearance and does not like it when he barges in on him.

This reveals that Holden actually does not like to be rude. It is obvious that he hates Ackley, but he still decides to not be rude to him. He never tells him to get out any of the 85 times he barges in on him.  It is obvious that he is trying to be respectfully.

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"The other reason I wasn't down at the game was because I was on my way to say
good-by to old Spencer, my history teacher. He had the grippe, and I figured I probably
wouldn't see him again till Christmas vacation started. He wrote me this note saying he
wanted to see me before I went home. He knew I wasn't coming back to Pencey."

The reveals that Mr. Spencer actually cares a decent amount about Holden. It is obvious that Holden had other teachers, as he failed 5 classes. Out of all of his teachers, only Mr. Spencer invited him so he could see him again.

This character reveals that fact that while Holden does not really care about anything, he still is a charismatic and well liked character. We see through the conversation that Spencer is aware of Holden's failure in class, but he ignores this failure and he still respects Holden a lot.